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- NikoKun, on 10/10/2007, -3/+27We spray herbicides on other countries in this world, all in the name of the Drug War... -_-
- billbacon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15After everything I've heard about this company they, and their shareholders deserve to be behind bars. They patent life which is immune to herbicides. They infect fields with their crops that grows faster than weeds. They infect land with these crops and demand money from farmers which are already living off of government subsidies. Want to know why corn is subsidized? It's not for ethanol. It's these *****, their lobbyists, and corrupt government officials. Thanks to them we have a bunch of crappy food. Do you think crops that are genetically altered to be immune to pesticides and grow on crappy soil, then sprayed with those pesticides, are good for you? ARRRRGHHHH!!! This is exactly the kind of corrupt ***** that embodies everything that is wrong with American corporatism.
- Hillsfar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Coca has been grown for thousands of years by farmers. Coca leaves are chewed by locals in the Andean mountains or jungles on a daily basis as a mild relaxant and pain killer. These are poor farmers who have wives and children. They grow these crops and are paid very little. They do this so they aren't killed by guerillas and drug traffickers with guns who demand that they grow these crops.
Cocaine is created by drug traffickers/chemists to feed addicts who otherwise would turn to methamphetamines or marijuana or heroin or prescription pain killers anyway.
I have little sympathy for your stupidity. - specialK16, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13You certainly don't know what you are talking about. Coca farmers aren't exactly the killing/stealing scum you are thinking of.
- DracoFlameus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11omg... did u even read the article? "commonly used"... lol... yeah, right.
"The border residents who were tested had been exposed to the common herbicide glyphosate—sold by the U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto under the brand Roundup—during a series of aerial sprayings by the Colombian government begun in 2000. The sprayings were part of “Plan Colombia,” an anti-drug and counterinsurgency program financed by Washington."
"Since 2000 Washington has been financing the aerial spraying in Colombia of coca crops, which provide the raw materials for cocaine, of which Colombia is the world’s leading producer. In the past three years the U.S. government has spent more than $1.3 billion to combat the drug trade." - bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10I read about "Plan Columbia" at one point a while ago. Someone had commented "They can't use those chemicals? They'll be killing/sending blind the workers!? This isn't about exterminating the drugs.. its about exterminating the drug workers"
and everyone laughed at how crazy that person was.
This is big news. Mark my words. Someone is knowingly responsible for assault/genetic genocide... - NoTiG, on 10/10/2007, -6/+16Herbicides should be banned period
- Hillsfar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10The U.S.-funded part is significant. Our government pushed for it by both proposing it and financing it, tying our aid to Colombia to it.
Our government is also pushing for another kind of herbicide in the form of a fungus. The same kind of fungus that ate at the eyes of those people who purchased contaminated Bausch and Lomb solutions to wash their contacts with. Can we say US-funded blindness, anyone?
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2657/drug_warriors_push_eye_eating_fungus/ - kunradish, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11The new Agent Orange?
- NoTiG, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12This development is absolutely no surprise and in fact has been long anticipated by many rational scientists. It is the inevitable consequence of using these non-natural methods.
For a few $100 million, Monsanto is sacrificing the future health of the planet by introducing genetically modified crops to increase sales of their herbicides.
Sound like something the drug companies might do?
Well it’s no wonder this sounds like a drug company tactic -- Monsanto is owned by drug company giant, Pharmacia.
Pharmacia Corporation was created in April 2000 through the merger of Pharmacia & Upjohn with Monsanto Company and its G.D. Searle unit. Pharmacia employs 59,000 people worldwide and has research, manufacturing and administrative sales operations in more than 60 countries.
http://www.mercola.com/2003/jan/29/gmo_crops.htm - futuretense, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10I understand the anger at the farmers for growing a plant that is used to produce drugs that has had a destructive force on part of our society. But if our government funds the spraying of a chemical that is known to do this type of damage to human and other animal DNA (regardless if you are a farmer or not) isn't this tantamount to supporting the use of chemical weapons on human beings?
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Yes. This is the intention.
This came up years ago and anyone who mentioned that it was a potential human disaster was laughed at. Monsanto knew what the chemical would do. They're chemical scientists. The US knew what they were funding, and the Columbian Leaders knew what that funding was for.
This might be the first time you hear the term "genetic genocide" but it won't be the last... - Parker307, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7When do you want the spraying of tobacco to start - or does that benefit people?
- MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Your comment was so retarded, it damaged my DNA.
- Parker307, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It is big news. But it's not about hurting or killing the drug workers. It's about monsanto making money selling roundup. Also it's about the company that makes the planes to spray it. I'd bet allot that all the people in this destructive pointless poisoning of people(and birds, frogs wildlife in general) believe that they are doing nothing wrong. I bet the guy in the plane spraying has second thoughts though.
- TheOther1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6They already live in far worse conditions! It would be like a vacation for most of them.
- ReadItAndWeep, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Even though coca has many other uses besides cocaine, and it is a major part of that regions culture and lively-hood, we must spray pesticides similar to Agent Orange over the region to help keep George Bush's nose clean. God bless the war on drugs!!!
This story reminded me of the incident in Peru, when a CIA-contract surveillance jet ordered the Peruvian military to shoot down a Cessna full of Baptist missionaries from the US because they thought they were drug smugglers. God bless the war on drugs!!!
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=perucrash03&date=20010803 - gattone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Drugs fund terrorism. This is against the terrorism! So how do you stop the drugs from coming in? Simple, kill all Colombians. I am sure Mr Bush agrees.
Seriously now, it's Colombians' fault because they trust USA. Nobody should trust the United States or America considering the latest international developments! - Parker307, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6It is big news. But it's not about hurting or killing the drug workers. It's about Monsanto making money selling roundup. Also it's about the company that makes the planes to spray it. I'd bet allot that all the people in this destructive pointless poisoning of people(and birds, frogs wildlife in general) believe that they are doing nothing wrong. I bet the guy in the plane spraying has second thoughts though.
The area that this stuff it done is some of the richest most diverse areas in the world in terms of types of plants and animals. Some of the spraying is done in Columbia's National Parks. They are no doubt causing extinctions. This is the type of place where you could practically discover new species in your sleep. And all this harm for what? It's for nothing. The production of coca will continue somewhere else by someone else as long as it makes
money. Politicians become ignorant of simple economics when confronted with this drug issue. It's baffling and frustrating. - ganjadude4391, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6well when they make pennies growing cotton and dollars growing coca which one would you grow?
- ReadItAndWeep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Maybe so we know what our tax dollars are being used for?
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I read something along these lines a while ago... The plans were mentioned and someone had said "They can't use that?! everyone knows it causes enormous health problems for humans!"
and everyone laughed at how crazy that person was.
This is big news. They knew this would happen from the beginning. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You dumb ass. Cocaine has not been in Coca Cola for a hundred years.
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4monsanto - another great "free market" success
- angryredplanet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Sadly, money is generally enough to relegate those second thoughts
- ganjadude4391, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4let us not forget that cocaine is actually allowed to be prescribed by doctors to patients, it doesnt happen much (its a sced, 2 drug in the US. which means it does have limited medical value), yet marijuana is sced. 1, which means according to the US government it has absolutely no medical value.
go figgure - LuaPron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Aerial spraying “follows strict environmental safeguards, monitored permanently by several [Columbian] agencies,”
As long as it only causes death or injury to people that come into contact with it and any future children they have, its safe.
I wonder what the Geneva conventions have to say about using chemical weapons against non-combatants. I'd like to think this is war crimes material, maybe we could somehow get some convictions? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4"No, no, no! We said 'round up the cocaine farmers', not 'Roundup them'!"
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/front.htm
an incredible project about the evil done to South America by the megacorps. the people involved with this project have done such great work. download the images in highres, and read the associated text, and have your mind quite blown. most of us in N. America are all but entirely ignorant about what goes on south of Texas anyway, but what these corporations do in the name of profit and power is so beyond obscene. - niczar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Most of the population growth those days is occuring in Asia (Inda+China > 2B) so if that's the intent, they merely missed their target by 20000km.
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3putting toxins in the environment... put's toxins into the environment
I don't understand why it's so difficult to understand.... if something is not made of the building blocks of life and it's put into the ecosystem, you have a polluted ecosystem. The problems are incalculable... - HowardBeale7, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4war on drugs: natural herbs and plants are bad, cancer causing chemicals and pesticides are ok
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2and when it came up a few years back people laughed at any notions that it might have an effect on humans.
It did. they knew it. - logic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What the *****?
- HappyScrappy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Schmeiser
'The patent infringement finding was based solely on the determination that Schmeiser had recognized the crosscontamination, and knowingly went on to collect the crossbred seed, then replant and harvest it the next year.'
You've been fed a line. - justinjstark, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4This has been going on for years. I remember reading a few years back about the US government spraying or funding the spraying of cocoa plants in foreign countries. Of course herbicides are not good for people.
We need to stop this kind of activity. If we want to stop the drug problem in the United States, we need to stop the demand that is growing in our country, not the supply that is growing in other nations. - billbacon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3***** MONSANTO!
- fixedcoma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Looks like the war on drugs is going to destroy human life and destroy the environment in Columbia. Oh yeah, I knew Monsanto was backed by the System. Wonder how much genetically altered meats and vegetables we've been ingesting that will destroy our DNA?
- mbelleghem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Xanadude, google "dark alliance" when you have a chance. Because, well, crack is bad news.
- Parker307, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I suspect this is not the only area where your sympathy is very very limited.
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Killing you != polluting the organic matter that you are comprised of, thus polluting the entire ecosystem
- procrasti, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a non-narcotic coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola
- elamr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The border residents who were tested had been exposed to the common herbicide glyphosate�sold by the U.S. agribusiness giant MONSANTO under the brand Roundup
Monsanto-->
Growth hormones in milk, collusion with FoxNews & FDA (Drink Organic Milk):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU9ngbTxKw
The world's first multinational company Monsato's History Agent Orange:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5086419778501414302&q=monsanto&total=783&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2
Demonstration on Monsanto's "chemical warfare division"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGBW8VcfH5Q - hiphoc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Under the excuse of a drug war, the constitution has been violated, innocent people have been killed, government power has grown beyond belief, so called free America has the most amount of prisoners in the world. More than countries commie countries, countries with dictators. Countries with 4 times the population. And the Bush crime family and the Astor families have become incredibly rich.
- hiphoc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The people of the world do not trust governments. But like FDR said, "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way". Governments have a problem, that is the people. I bet the president of Columbia isnt getting sprayed. The easiest way to get rid of or dumb down a population is to blame it on an outside source. And he US is willing to play bad guy across the world.
- havesometea, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2They'll get over it.
- Afreyt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What??!
So basically you're saying that we have no right to enforce our own border laws, no right to place trade restrictions with other countries ... essentially that we have to allow importation of something that we've decided has no place in our country. Remember that the Columbian government agreed to allow us to conduct interdiction operations in their country. We asked, they agreed.
And because they are poor, its ok that they are killing Americans. Its also okay for China to ship us contaminated pet food, because hey, those workers are poor and need the money.And drugs are okay because the fact that someone is addicted to them, never, ever hurts anyone around them indirectly, never makes them a burden on the state, never destroys other people's lives.
Now if you were just talking about Roundup, we might have been able to have a discussion, but you are SO far out, thats impossible. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What the ***** does this story have to do with Monsanto and crops? Its the US govermnent and drugs we are talking about here. Keep this hippie living off the earth ***** in articles where it belongs.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Crappy article. Hatchet job.
I strays from far from any kind of logic, by alternately saying glyphosate damages DNA, causes immediate death (the frogs in there), and works as a hormone.
The article has only one common thread, hatred for glyphosate use. And yet it masquerades as coverage of a new study. - Visarga, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2America has no right to blame Colombia for producing drugs. Even though American money are spent to fight drugs in Colombia, American money are also paying for its cultivation and trafficking. The victim is that poor country and the winners are the drug dealers. The drug addicts should be free to do whatever with their bodies, as long as they don't harm anyone else and are provided with proper medical care in case they decide to get off drugs. The war on drugs is just a huge lie that makes victims left and right.
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